tentation

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English

Etymology

From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.

Noun

tentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)

  1. Obsolete form of temptation.
    • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.
  2. (obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.[1]

References

  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Tentation”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tentātiōnem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/
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Noun

tentation f (plural tentations)

  1. temptation

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Interlingua

Noun

tentation (plural tentationes)

  1. temptation
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